CRRG Member Activities

CRRG publications are authored by the full 10-member body, and represent our collective thinking on critical Colorado River issues. But the majority of each member's professional life is dedicated to their individual research, writings, and outreach. This page is dedicated to highlighting those individual contributions. See each member's personal page for additional resources.

Some Recent & Upcoming Publications and Outreach Activities

Presentations (since June 2015)

UPCOMING: Doug Kenney will present “The Complex Web of Western Water Issues” at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists. Fort Collins, CO; October 10, 2019.

​UPCOMING: Brad Udall will discuss the “Future of the Colorado River in a Changing Climate” for the High Country Conservation Center. Frisco, CO; September 18, 2019.

UPCOMING: Doug Kenney will present “The Case for a Grand Bargain” at the Annual Seminar of the Colorado River District. Grand Junction, CO; September 18, 2019.

UPCOMING: Brad Udall will present “When Hydrology and Management Collide: How Lake Powell Got Hammered” at the Annual Seminar of the Colorado River District. Grand Junction, CO; September 18, 2019.

Reagan Waskom presented “Ag is for Everybody” at the Summer Conference of the Colorado Water Congress. Steamboat, CO; August, 20, 2019.

​Jack Schmidt presented “The Opportunities and Challenges of Considering Alternative Management Paradigms (AMPs)” at the 40th Annual Summer Water Conference of the Getches-Wilkinson Center (Charting a Better Course for the Colorado River: Identifying the Data and Concepts to Shape the Interim Guidelines Renegotiation). Boulder, CO; June 7, 2019. https://www.getches-wilkinsoncenter.cu.law/events/2019-gwc-summer-conference/.

Brad Udall presented “Management: When Hydrology and Management Collide” at the 40th Annual Summer Water Conference of the Getches-Wilkinson Center (Charting a Better Course for the Colorado River: Identifying the Data and Concepts to Shape the Interim Guidelines Renegotiation). Boulder, CO; June 6, 2019. https://www.getches-wilkinsoncenter.cu.law/events/2019-gwc-summer-conference/.

Jack Schmidt presented on the panel "Singing a Challenging Tune: Harmonizing Dams and Environmental Mitigation" at the annual conference of the Colorado River Water Users Association (CRWUA). Las Vegas, NV; December 13, 2017.

Reagan Waskom presented "Stretching Our Water Supply: Research and Innovation” at the Law of the Rio Grande, CLE International. Santa Fe, NM; April 6, 2017.

Jonathan Overpeck (Peck) presented “New perspectives on future climate change risk and ecosystem change” at the University of New Mexico Department of Biology’s annual Research Day (keynote lecture). Albuquerque, NM; March 31, 2017. https://biology.unm.edu/news/research-day.shtml

Bonnie Colby presented “Economic Criteria for Evaluating Environmental Water Transaction Programs” at the National Center for Environmental Analysis and Synthesis, University of California. Santa Barbara, CA; February 1, 2017.

Bonnie Colby presented “Farms, Economic Tradeoffs and the Federal Farm Program Implications for Water” at the Public Policy Institute of California Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA; January 2017.

Bonnie Colby presented “Developing a Framework for Evaluating Regional Water Trading” at the Public Policy Institute of California Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA; January 2017.

Jonathan Overpeck (Peck) presented “Increasing Megadrought Risk at the Intersection of Decadal to Centennial Variability and Climate Change” at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA; December 14, 2016.

Jonathan Overpeck (Peck) presented “Use-inspired Paleoenvironmental Science and Data: A Deep Whole-Earth Time Dimension” at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA; December 13, 2016.

Bonnie Colby presented “Economic Aspects of Tribal Water Management and Settlement Negotiations” at the University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ; November 2016.

Bonnie Colby (with Hwee Hwang and Kevin Lansey) presented “Modeling the Southwestern U.S. Water and Power Interconnected Systems” at the University of Arizona, Water Resources Research Center workshop. Tucson, AZ; November 2016.

Jack Schmidt presented "Competing objectives for the Colorado River: water supply, hydropower, and river rehabilitation -- can we have it all?" at the Upper Colorado River Basin Forum. Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO; November 2, 2016. http://www.coloradomesa.edu/water-center/forum/

Karl Flessa presented “Transboundary environmental flows to the Colorado River Delta: When the past matters and when it doesn't” at the International Conference on Ecological Sciences. Marseille, France; October 26, 2016. https://sfecologie2016.sciencesconf.org/106008Jonathan Overpeck (Peck) presented a keynote address at the Restoring the West conference, “The Colorado River, Climate Change and Drought.” Utah State University, Logan, UT; October 19, 2016. http://www.restoringthewest.org/

Bonnie Colby presented “Managing Drought Risks Through Water Banks: Who Pays and Who Benefits?” at the New Mexico Water Institute Annual Conference. Silver City, NM; October 6, 2016. https://nmwaterconference.nmwrri.nmsu.edu/#

Jack Schmidt presented “Riparian restoration in the Colorado River system.” The Nature Conservancy and Tamarisk Coalition field conference. Moab, UT. April 21, 2016.

Karl Flessa presented “A brief meeting of the waters: Science and policy of the first environmental flow to the Colorado River Delta” to the Conservation Biology Program, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. February, 2016.

Brad Udall presented “Is a Sustainable Colorado River Possible?” to the CLE International Conference: Law and the Colorado River: Cooperation in the Face of Shortage. Las Vegas, NV. February 5, 2016.

Jonathan Overpeck presented “Changing Climate in a Changing Future: Impact on Our Water Resources” to the CLE International Conference: Law and the Colorado River: Cooperation in the Face of Shortage. Las Vegas, NV. February 4, 2016.

Reagan Waskom and Doug Kenney were featured guests on “Colorado State of Mind” (Rocky Mountain PBS TV), discussing the CRRG’s report on the Interim Guidelines. January 21, 2016. http://video.rmpbs.org/video/2365649839/.